Case Reports

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According to Advocate General Wathelet, EUIPO must re-examine whether the three-dimensional shape of the ‘Kit Kat 4 fingers’ product may be maintained as an EU trade mark. He proposes that the appeals brought by Nestlé, EUIPO and Mondelez be dismissed and states that Nestle did not adduce suffi

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A modular trial format has been ordered in the ongoing Blackrock Clinic shareholder dispute which commenced in 2014. Finding that the extensive use of court resources in this private dispute, and the recusal of a judge previously hearing the case amounted to “special or unusual circumstances”; M

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A financial fund has been granted summary judgment for repayment of a €1.8 million loan which was facilitated by EBS in 2006. One of the property developers who agreed to the loan sought to argue that there was an oral agreement that he would not be personally liable to the loan, which was not inc

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A man who was unanimously convicted by a jury of seventeen counts of sexual assault and rape in 2016 has lost an appeal against his conviction. The man complained that the trial judge erred in admitting a memorandum of his Garda interview and also evidence about his admissions to the victim’s fami

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National University of Ireland Galway has successfully appealed a High Court order which placed an injunction on an investigation into bullying complaints made by a member of staff. One of the respondents to the complaint alleged objective bias on the part of the independent investigator appointed b

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In a claim involving a student who suffered catastrophic brain injuries after being hit by a bus in 2004, Bus Éireann has had its application to dismiss the claim for want of prosecution refused in the High Court. Finding that delay on behalf of the plaintiff was both inordinate and inexcusable, Mr

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